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IPM
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Determining the informational, navigational, and transactional intent of Web queries
In this paper, we define and present a comprehensive classification of user intent for Web searching. The classification consists of three hierarchical levels of informational, na...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
JCISE
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Modeling Information Needs in Engineering Databases Using Tacit Knowledge
Online resources of engineering design information are a critical resource for practicing engineers. These online resources often contain references and content associated with te...
Shuang Song, Andy Dong, Alice M. Agogino
IEEESCC
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Business-Activity Driven Search: Addressing the Information Needs of Services Professionals
Services business generates significant amount of human and machine created data. Search and discovery of relevant information from this data is a critical factor in enhancing wor...
Nithya Rajamani, Murthy V. Devarakonda, Yu Deng, W...
VLDB
1994
ACM
149views Database» more  VLDB 1994»
13 years 11 months ago
Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
Terry Gaasterland, Jorge Lobo
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Do we mean the same?: disambiguation of extracted keyword queries for database search
Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...
Elena Demidova, Irina Oelze, Peter Fankhauser